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The LOS ANGELES LAWYER
Semiannual Guide to
Expert Witnesses
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS/RECONSTRUCTION
4X FORENSIC ENGINEERING
LABORATORIES, INC.
5262 Oceanus Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92649,
(714) 450-8500, fax (714) 450-8599, e-mail: phil
@4Xforensic.com. Website: www.4Xforensic.com.
Contact Phil Van Herle. 4X Forensic Engineering
Laboratories is a full-service forensic engineering laboratory.
We provide expert witness and analytical and
testing services in the following areas: fires and explosions:
electrical and gas product defect investigations,
thermal and fire modeling and laboratory testing; water
loss: materials, corrosion, and failure analysis of plumbing
products; failure analysis: metallurgy, product testing,
and computerized stress analysis; accident reconstruction:
automotive, trucks, construction equipment,
and premises liability. See display ad on page 35.
WILLIAM KUNZMAN, PE
1111 Town and Country #34, Orange, CA 92868,
(714) 904-2821, e-mail: bill@traffic-engineer.com.
Website: www.traffic-engineer.com. Contact William
Kunzman, PE. Traffic expert witness since 1979, both
defense and plaintiff. Auto, pedestrian, bicycle, and
motorcycle accidents. Largest plaintiff verdicts: 1)
$12,200,000 in pedestrian accident case against
Caltrans, 2) $10,300,000 in case against Los Angeles
Unified School District. Largest settlement: $2,000,000
solo vehicle accident case against Caltrans. Best
defense verdicts: 1) $0 while defending Caltrans and
opposition sought $16,000,000. 2) $0 defending City
of Long Beach and opposition sought $15,000,000.
Before becoming expert witness, employed by Los
Angeles County Road Department, Riverside County
Road Department, City of Irvine, and Federal Highway
Administration. Knowledge of governmental agency
procedures, design, geometrics, signs, traffic controls,
maintenance, and pedestrian protection barriers. Hundreds
of cases. Undergraduate work—UCLA, graduate
work—Yale University.
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
P.O. Box 5586, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762, (916) 825-
5592, fax (530) 676-1513, e-mail: globalcto@att.net.
Website: www.jvra.com/expert/default.aspx?ref=1603.
Contact Russell Darnell, PhD, BSE, MBA, CAI,
President/CTO. California Coast University, BSE,
MBA, PhD Engineering Management. Accident reconstruction,
motorcycle safety, forensic engineering, vehicle
fires—cause and origin, motocross and off-highway
vehicle accidents, safety gear, products testing. Motorcycles,
auto, atv, boats, racing, trailers/towing, heavy
equipment, accident reconstruction, motocross, product
liability, engineering, safety, racetrack design.
Sworn deposition testimony 600+ times. Appearance
as an expert witness in 218 jury trials. Qualified since
1974 in state, federal, and foreign courts.
MOMENTUM ENGINEERING CORP
2862 Columbia Street, Torrance, CA 90503, (310) 618-
8017, fax (310) 618-8194, e-mail: ecf@momentum-eng
.com. Website: www.momentum-eng.com. Contact
Ed Fatziner. Expert witness services, airbag control
module, vehicle dynamics and testing, animation and
graphics, forensic engineering, failure analysis, and
motorcycle dynamics.
CARL SHERIFF, PE, FORENSIC ENGINEER
10153½ Riverside Drive, Suite 365, Toluca Lake, CA
91602, (818) 766-9259, fax (818) 908-9301, e-mail:
carlsheriff@aol.com. Contact Carl Sheriff, PE,
forensic engineer. Degrees in law and engineering.
Licensed safety engineer, general contractor, real
estate broker, and certified building and playground
inspector. Licensed truck driver. Consulting and expert
testimony on premises liability, product defects, and
traffic accidents. Construction and industrial accidents.
Building and OSHA code compliance. Slip, trip, and
falls. Human factors. Safety evaluation. Computerized
analysis and exhibits. Free initial file review.
ACCOUNTING
ADVISORS/EXPERTS @ MCS ASSOCIATES
18881 Von Karman, Suite 1175, Irvine, CA 92612,
(949) 263-8700, fax (949) 263-0770, e-mail: experts
@mcsassociates.com. Website: www.mcsassociates
.com. Contact Norman Katz, managing partner.
Nationally recognized banking, finance, insurance, and
real estate consulting group (established 1973). Experienced
litigation consultants/experts include senior
bankers, lenders, consultants, economists, accountants,
insurance underwriters/brokers. Specialties
include: lending customs, practices, policies, in all types
of lending (real estate, subprime, business/commercial,
construction, consumer/credit card), banking operations/administration,
trusts and investments, economic
analysis and valuations/damages assessment, insurance
claims, coverages and bad faith, real estate brokerage,
appraisal, escrow, and title insurance.
CORNERSTONE RESEARCH
633 West Fifth Street, 31st Floor, Los Angeles, CA
90071-2005, (213) 553-2500, fax (213) 553-2699.
Website: www.cornerstone.com. Contact George G.
Strong, Jr., Richard W. Dalbeck, Katie J. Galley,
Elaine Harwood, Carlyn Irwin, Erin McGlogan, or
Ashish Pradhan. For more than 25 years, Cornerstone
Research staff have provided economic and financial
analysis in all phases of commercial litigation and regulatory
proceedings. We work with a broad network of
testifying experts, including prominent faculty and
industry practitioners, in a distinctive collaboration. The
experts with whom we work bring the specialized expertise
required to meet the demands of each assign ment.
Our areas of specialization include intellectual property,
antitrust, securities, entertainment, real estate, financial
institutions, and general business litigation.
FULCRUM INQUIRY
888 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2000, Los Angeles,
CA 90017, (213) 787-4100, fax (213) 891-1300,
e-mail: dnolte@fulcrum.com. Website: www.fulcrum
.com. Contact David Nolte. Our professionals are
experienced CPAs, MBAs, ASAs, CFAs, affiliated professors,
and industry specialists. Our analysis and
research combined with unique presentation techniques
have resulted in an unequaled record of successful
court cases and client recoveries. Our expertise
encompasses damages analysis, loss profit studies,
business and intangible asset valuations, fraud investigations,
statistics, forensic economic analysis, royalty
audits, strategic and market assessments, competitive
surveys, analysis of computerized data, injury, and
employment damages, and a wide range of other financial
advisory services. Degrees/licenses: CPAs, CFAs,
ASAs, PhDs, and MBAs in accounting, finance, economics,
and related subjects. See display ad on
back cover.
GELMAN LLP
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
AND BUSINESS ADVISORS
1940 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, CA 92705,
(714) 667-2600, fax (714) 667-2636, e-mail: rsquar
@gmgcpa.com. Website: www.gelmanllp.com.
Contact Richard M. Squar. Gelman LLP provides
superior litigation support services, including expert
witness testimony, strategy development, document
discovery, deposition assistance, computation of
damages, arbitration consulting, forensic accounting,
investigative auditing, rebuttal testimony, fiduciary
accountings, and trial exhibit preparation. Our areas of
expertise include business interruption, loss of earnings
analysis, breach of contract, partnership dissolution,
profits distribution, tax consequences of settlements,
reconstruction of accounting records, embezzlement
and fraud, contract costs, lost profits, construction
claims, damage computations, and malpractice cases.
Our comprehensive case list is available upon request.
Our practice focuses on closely held entrepreneurial
firms in the following industries: construction, real
estate development, equipment leasing, auto parts
(wholesale and retail), manufacturing, and professional
services. See display ad on page 34.
GURSEY | SCHNEIDER LLP
1888 Century Park East, Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA
90067, (310) 552-0960, fax (310) 557-3468, e-mail:
nafshar@gursey.com, kdolabson@gursey.com, or gk
@gursey.com. Website: www.gursey.com. Contact
Naz Afshar, Keith Dolabson, or Gary Krausz.
Forensic accounting and litigation support services in
the areas of marital dissolution, civil litigation, business
valuation and appraisal, goodwill, business disputes,
malpractice, tax matters, bankruptcy, damage and
cost-profit assessments, insurance claims, court
accounting, tracing, and entertainment industry litigation.
See display ad on page 45.
HARGRAVE & HARGRAVE, AN
ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION
12121 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Los Angeles,
CA 90025, (310) 576-1090, fax (310) 576-1080,
e-mail: terry@hargraveandhargrave.com. Website:
www.hargraveandhargrave.com. Contact Terry M.
Hargrave, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE. Forensic accounting
and business valuation services for family law and civil
cases. Past chair of California Society of CPAs’ Family
Law Section and business valuation instructor for California
CPA Education Foundation. Services include
business valuations, income available for support, tracing
separate property, litigation consulting, real estate
litigation, mediation, fraud investigations, damage calculation,
and other forensic accounting work.
KRYCLER, ERVIN, TAUBMAN, AND
KAMINSKY
15303 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1040, Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403, (818) 995-1040, fax (818) 995-4124. Website:
www.ketkcpa.com. Contact Michael J. Krycler.
Litigation support, including forensic accounting, business
appraisals, family law accounting, business and
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